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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Semi-OT: What is allowed in recruiting these days? (Damon Webb warning)

Semi-OT: What is allowed in recruiting these days? (Damon Webb warning)

These days, it's hard to know what is and is not allowed in the world of recruiting. We've laughed at the tweets to recruits from the likes of Joker Phillips, et. al., but I hadn't seen something like this yet. I saw an article on Maize 'n' Brew on recruiting. I was shocked to see a retweeted photo of Damon Webb pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, content created by the recruiting department at Ohio State.

I guess I don't get how this is allowed - using a NAME BRAND (Sports Illustrated) in recruiting materials - yet game-day simulations (e.g. announcing recruit's name over P.A. in stadium) is not. Would SI have to give some sort of permission for them to use their name? Just doesn't seem right to me - but I don't know all the rules of recruiting.

I just e-mailed the picture to our head of Compliance. Here is his e-mail back...

"As per an NCAA interpretation (see below) this would be considered an altered photograph and would be impermissible to send to a recruit.

Photographs as Attachments to General Correspondence and Electronic Transmissions (I)

Date Published: August 30, 2012

Item Ref: f

Interpretation:

The academic and membership affairs staff determined that an institution may send a photograph to a prospective student-athlete as an attachment to general correspondence (printed on plain white paper with black ink) or electronic transmissions, provided the information in the photograph was not altered or staged for a recruiting purpose."

“True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise — the other, loyalty.”

Roseberg was rewarded for violating journalism's standards of both ethics and accuracy with a job at SI. They have kept a few people who do good work, but SI is definitely going in the wrong directon and has been for a few years now.

At this point, they should just abandon all pretense of being journalists and embrace what they are: entertainers. People would probably have a lot more respect for their honesty.

...the hypothetical reasoning behind some of the enforcement rules mentioned in this thread (i.e. announcing a recruit at a basketball game) is to maintain parity among all schools, meaning to get yourself mentioned at an...OSU basketball game means more than getting an introduced at...I dunno, Dayton. The thing with this is anyone can make these (I know, people are going to say this was probably some intern that Dayton couldn't afford to have) hypothetically.

really moral condemnation - more a lack of understanding of why one thing is ok and another is not. I like your explanation and helps to explain it - but I'm also guessing the theoretical "Dayton" wouldn't have the necessary clout (and cojones) to use SI's branded logo without repercussions.

Same way the NCAA is starting to dig it's heels in regarding Social Media - it's an ever changing target. Hard to know what is right and wrong anymore (and NOTHING is right about Webb being a Buckeye. NOTHING!)

I believe that the section on materials - recruiting, official, non-athletic, etc. - is 13.4 or something in that range in the manual. As I understood this, and I could be wrong here, the school cannot buy space for advertisements or promotional material such as this, but it doesn't stop outside parties from doing so or a magazine like SI from making recruiting or scouting previews. In turn, it seems like it is within the rules for the school to turn around and use that material for their own purposes provided it is generally available, and SI would almost certainly fall in that category.

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

This is one of the many reasons why I think how the NCAA is set up is soooo dumb. If I were a school, the same day I created the illegal artwork to woo the recruit I would be drafting up the secondary violation form to send to the NCAA to let them know I did it.

More broadly to this topic, I am always interested in learning more about the NCAA rules and what behaviors do and do not constitute violations (however arbitrary they may seem to be). I know that WTKA did (does?) have a weekly segment with a UofM complaince employee, and I frequently found those segments to be interesting.

I don't know if anyone on this blog is involved in or has significant knowledge of NCAA rules/benefits/violations/etc., but I would very much welcome a regular post or diary that addresses some of the most common (read: most often & widely debated) aspects of NCAA compliance. Perhaps this is something that could help to fill the long and lonely post-football months on the blog. Just one man's thoughts.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

If it's a helpful recruiting tactic people on here should do their own photoshop mockups with recruits on magazine covers or their name on the back of a jersey of a player making a big play. If it looked cool enough it would make its way back to the recruit without having to target them directly.

For a staff that said they were going to focus on Midwest/MI/Ohio boys missing out on 2 blue chippers instate doesn't bode well. So Webb to OSU, MM possibly going to MSU or OSU. If you take out 2 QBs we didn't want and Bullough who comes from a long line of Spartans we got 3/7 top players in the state but what gives with the other 2? Especially when you're losing them to rivals. It's not like MI produces an abundance of great players.